What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves is a roundup of career changes, media coverage, product development and other updates from the companies and individuals regularly covered by Silicon Prairie News.

If you or your company would like to submit an item for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.

Lead Read

"Harvest time: growing movement in Columbia focuses on entrepreneurial cultivation" - The Columbia Daily Tribune looks at some of the programs, organizations and people that are building the enterpreneurial ecosystem in Columbia, Mo. (above)

Quotable

"I'm especially a fan of the Ka-Ching found in the PayPal notification." - Wade Foster showcased the Campfire alerts of a Zapier user - Zapier blog

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Vital Support Systems bought by Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. of Madison, Wis. for $45 million - Press Release and Des Moines Register

Career Moves

• Nick Silhacek joined RecBob full-time as game master - RecBob blog
• Rachel Schelhaas and Jackson Marketon joined Blend Interactive as interns - Blend Interactive blog

New Tech

• Rigo Neri released Syte, an open-sourced personal site that has social integrations - Syte, Rigo Neri blog and Hacker News
• Locker Partner launched Panofan for the Kansas City Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw show - arrowheadcam.com

Product & Business Development

• Torsion Mobile released version 1.5 of Mojaba - Torsion Mobile blog, Press Release and Video

Mentions

• Christian Renaud of StartupCity Des Moines - Renaud: 'Lot more cheerleading than challenging' on startup scene - Des Moines Register
• AgLocal - Local Meat Coming to a Smartphone Near You! KC-based Startup Takes Aim at Meat Distribution Paradigm - Seedstock
• Industry Report: Technology - Des Moines Business Record
• Harvest time: growing movement in Columbia focuses on entrepreneurial cultivation - Columbia Daily Tribune

Recognition

• Benaissance recognized as thought leader in individual and consolidated group subscriber billing operations, technology and services space - Benaissance blog

Blogged

• How to Turn an Idea into a Startup: Begin with a Business Concept Statemen - Alana Muller
• We blow'd up real good! - John Jackovin
• Get Notifications from Notorious B.O.T. - Zapier

Misc.

• FinovateSpring 2012 released videos of presentations by Dwolla and Social Money
• Free WiFi coming to Turner Park - Omaha.com
• Kansas City IT Professionals highlighted one of its Hack the Midwest teams - Where Da Spot?
• Call for Volunteers: #KC Social Media Command Center - Social Media Club of Kansas City
• Globally relevant thinking inspires this YP - Des Moines Register
• TEDxDesMoines 2012 announced with lineup that includes Dwolla's Ben Milne - TEDxDesMoines and Des Moines Register
• EliteForm updated its website with a new demo video - EliteForm on YouTube

Credits: Screenshot from columbiatribune.com